Number of NHS patients waiting for 12 hours on trolleys up by 10,546%

[Northerner]

There has been a huge jump in the number of patients having to wait on trolleys for long periods while waiting for hospital beds.

Data from NHS England shows that the number of patients waiting for more than 12 hours in England’s A&E departments increased by 10,546% in five years, across the coldest months.

Quarterly figures for January to March 2012 show that just 15 patients waited more than 12 hours for a bed. Only 40,022 people waited for four hours or more in 2012.

This was after doctors decided they needed to be admitted, and comes on top of any time they spent in casualty waiting to be seen.

In January to March this year, however, the number waiting for more than 12 hours was 1,597 – the highest on record.

http://metro.co.uk/2017/09/24/numbe...for-12-hours-on-trolleys-up-by-10546-6951859/

Had to do a double take on that number, but it's correct! 😱

 

[trophywench]

I just delved into that for August 2017.

Out of 481,000+ admissions from A&E depts, there were 61 waiting in the manner described. So out of all the people who actually had to be admitted 'now' via A&E (including those who were sent there by drop-in centres and their GPs) - that would be 0.0126819%.

I didn't delve further to discover the number of actual hospital A&E depts - but it has surely to be less than one person each? - It was 168 in 2010 I think.

It's a matter of how you actually want to present your lies, damn lies or statistics, isn't it?

 

[mikeyB]

Aye, well spotted Jenny. The same stats could manipulated to "aren't we doing well".

It's not just an inconvenience - those trolleys are quite firm, and an older person (or heavy younger person) can develop pressure sores in a few hours. So you kick off the hospital stay with greater morbidity on top of whatever else took you into hospital, and might well lengthen your stay once you are in.